No, not a bar. They all walked into my Barack Obama United for Change party. For those who have not read my previous diaries, I live in a very small, conservative, right wing, Christian town in Georgia. In one of my last diaries I was fighting the bad guys and correcting their smear emails and standing up for the good guys. I received over 300 comments urging me to keep up the good work and try to find others like me. So I volunteered at Obama's site and when the chance came to throw a party with 4,000 other people in this great country, I stepped up and decided to host a house party. I put my invitation on the Obama site and sent invitations to a few like minded friends and waited to see what happened.
To my amazement, the results were beyond my expectations. One of the first things to happen was I received an email from the Obama campaign asking me a little about my event. I replied with the usual small town, feeling left out in a red state blurb and went on with my life. Imagine my surprise two days later when I visit Obama's site and there I am "QUOTED" on the front page. Every day over the last 4 weeks, the Obama site has picked 2 or 3 people and talked about their plans for the Unite for Change party but this time they picked me. To my further surprise, I received 8 replies to attend my party.
I was very nervous when 7 rolled around. I had cleaned my house, prepared some food and beverages, ordered buttons and put out my sign-up sheets. My coffee tables sported the "Audacity of Hope" and "Goodnight Bush" (thanks Daily Kos for the heads up on that!). My first guest was a Vietnam Veteran, followed by two ladies together, a priest, and several friends and family members. The 10 year old was my son. All together we had almost 20 people in attendance. We discussed a wide variety of ideas and made plans to sign up to poll watch and register people to vote over the next few months. In case you haven't heard, Georgia has quite a few thousand unregistered voters. We decided we are going to do our part to turn Georgia blue this election and help elect Barack Obama our next president.
A special thanks to all the Daily Kos members who commented on my first diary and encouraged me to go forward. I feel I can really make a difference in this election.